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Friday, 3 March 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is facing a storm of criticism over
newly disclosed contacts he had with the Russian ambassador to the
United States. Allegations which claim that his contact with the Russian
Ambassador may have influenced the outcome of the
Presidential election, as well as the policies of the Trump
administration. Sessions admitted to meeting the Russian Ambassador but
said nothing they discussed had anything to do with the election.
He said he met with the Ambassador and 24 other world leaders.

Sessions said he met with the Russian Ambassador, Mr. Kislyak, in his
Senate office on Sept. 8, and described Mr. Kislyak as one of a parade
of envoys who seek out lawmakers like him to get information about
American policies and promote the agendas of their governments.
He said:

“Somehow, the subject of Ukraine came up”.

Recalling that the meeting grew testy after the ambassador defended
Russia’s conduct toward its neighbor and blamed everybody else but
Russia.
He added “I thought he was pretty much of an old-style, Soviet-type
ambassador,” He also said, that he declined a lunch invitation from Mr.
Kislyak.

Mr. Sessions’s decision to recuse himself was one of his first public
acts as attorney general. He said he made the decision after consulting
with Justice Department officials, and he denied misleading Senator Al
Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, when he said in his confirmation hearing
that he had not met with Russian officials about the Trump campaign.
He said to reporters:

“In retrospect,”.“I should have slowed down and said, ‘But I did meet
one Russian official a couple of times, and that would be the
ambassador.”

Many top Democrats demanded Mr. Sessions' resignation, while some have gone to the extent of saying he should go to jail.

Sessions has since recused himself on from any investigation into
charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. And he
has declined to make any comment regarding the investigation so as not
to jeopardize it.
He made the announcement, at a news conference on Thursday.

Pres. Donald Trump has defended Mr. Sessions, stating:

"Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could
have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not
intentional.
This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win.
The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality.
The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total "witch hunt!"